Posted on 01/02/2018 10:11:04 PM PST by Olog-hai
Although he does not foresee a quick end to the special counsel probe into Russian election meddling and aides to President Donald Trump, former White House counsel John Dean noted that the modern media landscape may prevent it from lasting as long as the Watergate investigation, which he said stretched on for 928 days.
“There’s social media, there’s the internet, the news cycles are faster. I think Watergate would have occurred at a much more accelerated speed than the 928 days it took to go from the arrest at the Watergate to the conviction of (H.R.) Haldeman and (John) Ehrlichman and (John) Mitchell, et al.,” he said during a podcast interview with Politico. Dean, who is a CNN contributor, ultimately cooperated with Senate investigators against President Richard Nixon, but he spent four months in jail in 1974 for his role in the scandal, which started with the attempted bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate and snowballed to bring down the Nixon presidency.
“I think there’s more likelihood (Nixon) might have survived if there’d been a Fox News,” he added, suggesting that more conservative voices critical of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation will be beneficial to Trump. […]
Dean also said Trump could be impeached for incompetence even though that is not spelled out in the Constitution. He argued that it depends on one’s perception of what constitutes such an offense, described in the Constitution as “treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors.” …
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Obama would not have survived without CNN and MSNBC.
Who?
Actually, it would never have been an issue if Nixon was a Democrat.
Yet Dean doesn’t mention Fox once in the article..
Listed in Heidi’s black book are Ben Barnes, future DNC chief John White, Sam Dash, Lowell Weicker, Barry Goldwater Sr. & Jr., Fred Fielding, Jeb Magruder, Maurice Stans and many Texas based LBJ hacks who worked with young Bill Clinton in the Texans for McGovern effort in 1972 (besides Barnes and White). I don’t think it is any coincidence that Taylor Branch, who was Clinton’s top aide in the 1972 Texans for McGovern effort, would later ghost-write John Dean’s book Blind Ambition.
Another strange item. Ida “Maxie” Wells, the DNC secretary who was frequently overheard on the tapped phone of Spencer Oliver become a “traveling secretary” for future president Jimmy Carter in 1974. Wells joined the White House with Carter in 1977.
In early 1972 in the months before Watergate, Governor Jimmy Carter visited Washington at least twice. Once for a winter governor’s conference and a few weeks later for an environmental symposium. The Heidi Rikan call-girl ring specialized in serving out of town visitors.
Bill Clinton was an adjunct professor at New Haven College (later University of New Haven) along with Alfred Baldwin, the man hired by CIA operative James McCord to monitor the bugged phone of Spencer Oliver/Ida “Maxie” Wells.
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These media companies all use the same initials, yet none of them actually broadcast anything anymore. It s all over cable or the internet now.
The G-Man has stated the break-in was a 100% Dean operation to retrieve the DNC book of hookers/prostitutes as it included the name of his future wife.
Dean always threatened to sue Liddy...but never did ‘cuz he knew Liddy spoke the truth.
With Nixon’s placement of the EPA and price controls, there is a lot for conservatives to dislike about Nixon.
But what he did have right was his battle against the left, beginning with Alger Hiss and culminating with his battle against the likes of Daniel Ellsberg et al.
Daniel Ellsberg and his ideological descendants in office today are bent on destroying America. Nixon was right to hate them as see them as the threat they are, as many of us do.
Nixon wasn’t handsome or even likable for many, but he was right in this respect.
Dean is, and was, a craven, sniveling scumbag. He has lived and will die with that.
Such is the life of a quisling. The right abhors him, and the left despises him.
If you read Whitewater it is hard to find any real crime. There certainly wasn’t anything that wasn’t done by both sides.
Possibly, if there had been a Fox News they would have brought up Dean’s wife’s whoring background coverup motivations and perhaps changed the landscape.
John Steinbeck was writing about President Eisenhower on January 20, 1953. This is nothing new.
??? Whitewater ???
You mean Watergate?
That is a sound, cogent, and historically accurate analysis.
However, I feel we are WAY through the looking glass on this. The Democrat Party has been absolutely overtaken by fringe kooks. Rational analysis is no longer effective in figuring out what they’re likely to do. I have no doubt they’d pull the trigger, just because they can, and they ACTUALLY BELIEVE that Trump is Hitler.
There will be no small number of establishment RINOs willing to join them.
I. Baseless speculation is fun, so I’ll see Dean’s “survive Watergate if Foxnews had existed”, and raise him to “Watergate wouldn’t have happened.”
Why?: Nixon saw the entire news media as arrayed in Democrat lockstep against him, in support of a far-Left candidate. With “fair and balanced” coverage, Nixon would have no reason to think McGovern had a prayer of winning, and whatever was in the Watergate Hotel would have been beneath notice.
II. No, Mr. Dean, Congress cannot impeach Presidents for reasons not enumerated in the Constitution, or twist interpretations into something they are not (mean tweets are a high misdemeanor!). That is called a coup d’état. It would trigger a Constitutional crisis and possibly a cleansing purge. Not happening.
“I think there’s more likelihood (Nixon) might have survived if there’d been a Fox News,” he added, suggesting that more conservative voices critical of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation will be beneficial to Trump. …As loath as I am to have posted CNN here, the other outlet who wrote about this is Politico.
It’s an admission of how the left-wing media worked together back in the 1970s to utterly control the narrative.
John Dean is responsible for Nixon’s resignation. He lied about his break-ins to Nixon while telling the Dems it was Nixon who ordered them.
Dean was trying to minimize his own prison time. I doubt Nixon ever really knew what was going on.
I've seen some wacky political stuff over the past 47 years, and especially since the arrival of the Clinton's, but I'm willing to bet that the American people are mature enough to understand that congress can not circumvent the will of the people.
Given the resources provided by the internet and non mainstream media, and Trump's proven ability to overcome one of the most vicious mainstream media attacks ever assailed against a politician running for office, and his ability to withstand the daily and continuous assault the media has delivered since his election. Donald Trump is just the sort of politician who could point that fact out with clarity.
They may want and wish to impeach him, and they may even succeed in doing so, but if they do they should be prepared for his response and the consequences of their actions. A constitutional crises and political disruption that will be placed on their heads... Not his.
As Harry Callahan played by Clint Eastwood said... "Go ahead, make my day". I myself can hardly wait for it.
LOL!! The one most like Nixon isn’t Trump, it’s Hillary!
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